Word: blumberg
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Also elected from Harvard were Joseph H. Blatt. of Winthrop House and Indian- apolis, Ind.. Peter M. Blumberg, of Kirkland House and Winchester, Nils M. P. d'Aulaire, of Dunster House and Wilton, Conn., Robert K. Emerson, Jr., of Adams House and Hancock Point, Maine, Christopher G. Fanta. of Lowell House and Brooklyn. N. Y., and Theodore S. Feldman. of Lowell House and Waban
...detective work began five years ago, when Australian National University's Dr. Robert Kirk collected blood specimens from a group of aborigines and sent samples to Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg at Philadelphia's Institute for Cancer Research. Blumberg, who was studying the effects of frequent blood transfusions for diseases such as leukemia, tested blood from many parts of the world. Of 24 samples examined, only one from an aborigine caused the test-tube reaction he was looking for. Blumberg found the cause to be an ultramicroscopic viruslike particle. He and Dr. Harvey J. Alter, of the National Institutes...
...owner-operator of Radio Station WBOX in Bogalusa, La., Ralph Blumberg felt it was his civic duty to help explain the meaning of the new civil rights law to his community. The local Ku Klux Klan disagreed. And to bolster its argument, its members threw bricks through Blumberg's car windows, spread tacks in his driveway, fired six shots into his transmitter, forced the station's transfer from rented quarters to a trailer. So convincingly did Klansmen threaten the lives of his wife and children that Blumberg moved them to St. Louis...
...Blumberg stayed behind to fight, but local advertisers and employees faded away, until he was virtually alone on the job with only two national ad accounts to help pay costs. To honor his persistent fight, the Radio and Television News Directors last week named him recipient of their annual Paul White Award (named after CBS's first news chief). Aware that his Bogalusa experience has left Blumberg in need of far more than a silver cup, the TV men spontaneously passed the award around, filled it out of their pockets to the tune...
...Blumberg, the honor was gratifying and the money more than welcome. But he announced sadly that while the cash helped, he could no longer afford to continue the fight and was currently negotiating to sell his radio station at a loss...